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"You're a surprisingly dense person."
Huhh?
"You've managed to mistake a news article for a financial audit,"
nope, that's a straw man you've been trying to prop up for a dozen comments because you can't refute my main point that WMF has plenty of money and shouldn't be lying to and manipulating donors for more.
"misread a number of comments"
still no evidence for that after a dozen comments? rad.
"misinterpret numbers"
you don't think three is next to four... that one's on you.
"think that the phrase "article I agree with" means I don't agree with"
also nope
so your strategy is to keep making things up?
consistent.
"the second article you shared, which doesn't get their cash or assets wrong "
see, every time you respond, you make up a whole bunch of stuff, and then right at the end you angrily insist "also, I agreed with you all along!"
fine, I'm glad you can't refute these things anymore.
You can keep ranting about irrelevant details and then agreeing with my original conclusion.
from the first comment.
I'm fine with that.
"Also, congrats on actually running with "bold of you to assume I can read"."
thank you!
given that I've roundly quashed all of your efforts here, I figured that insult was a facetious, last-ditch attempt of yours to distract from your illogical meandering and thought it would be fun to turn that little insult back on you.
it was fun!
your insults and tangents have that "water off a duck's back" quality I enjoy.
This is the part where you're dense as fuck. As I said from the get go, I wasn't trying to do that, you absolute insecure buffoon.
Go back and re-read the first comment, and try not being insecure and combative. I was literally, as you say, correcting a typo (Although then using that typo in math makes me feel like it was a misunderstanding of the numbers and not a typo).
"Wikipedia has a half billion cash and is evil for asking for more" is really different from "Wikipedia isn't in as bad a situation as you might think, and donation isn't as crucial as they might lead you to believe".
Your first comment is grossly misleading. I don't really give a shit about your conclusion, since I'm ambivalent about donating. See also: the paragraphs I quoted from your second article I liked.
Maybe, just maybe, it's like I've been saying and you refuse to accept: I'm not trying to "gotcha" you, I just actually cared about accurate numbers. If you actually care about accurate numbers for drawing conclusions, like a person who goes and reads financial audits might, then perhaps they aren't "irrelevant details". Or, as I like to call them: A $320 million dollar error.
You're the one who can't accept that someone saying "hey, their financials are by no means weak but they don't have decades of cash saved up" isn't a disagreement with your main point.
Then you went off on insane ad hominem tangents and refused to believe that maybe someone isn't attacking you.
You really haven't. If you'll recall: "what the fuck are you even talking about"? Insecure gibberish isn't the masterful debate strategy you think it is. You aren't coming across as cleverly as you seem to think you are.
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